Mixed grip.

I think I have a bad habit with my right hand. I have noticed that I use the piper’s grip at times and the classical grip, sometimes during the same song. No one does this, right?

You do. :smiley:
Arbo

:open_mouth: bit of a stretch, innit

I don’t think that switching back and forth would cause yer hand ta fall off! :poke:

As long as it doesn’t make me grow hair on my palms.

You can shave in the summer, and keep yer hands warm in winter.
Arbo

:smiley: yup! it’s all good, eh :smiley:

I don’t know about “no one”, but I think Musashi would have something to say about that. From The Book of Five Ferrules:


● Grip the flute with a rather floating feeling in your thumb and fingers…It is bad to have play in your hands.

● When you take up a flute, you must feel intent on playing the tune. As you play a tune you must not change your grip, and your hands must not ‘cower’…Above all, you must be intent on playing the tune in the way you grip the flute.

● The grip for performance and for testing flutes is the same. There is no such thing as a ‘reel-playing grip’.



– Notice that he doesn’t make a preference of one grip over the other. What he does here is urge consistency. :wink:

one fact, two judgements
consider the terrain
one treads on sand
differently
to the tussocky hill
yet on the same walk
bugged by the same probs